Word: reaping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall ye reap...
Obvious was the sincerity of this appeal. No less obvious was the fact that, however intended, it was excellent business for The Christian Century; that The Christian Century (present circulation 32,500) stood to reap the sort of benefit that befalls munitions makers in wartime...
...roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When he was skipper for Trader Knoff, Edevart was the big man of Polden, and brought a short-lived prosperity to his native hamlet. But he was always too kindhearted, the roguery he learned from August never really became part of him; and another man's wife...
...State in which dead bank robbers are worth more than live ones*.Texas bankers go further, offer $5,000 per corpse. This sum has been paid five times in five years. Last April two Negroes were lured into bank robbery at Fort Worth so that four white men might reap $10,000 bounty for killing them...
...erection of comfortable and convenient living quarters for the law students is a project that would reap substantial benefits. The imaginary fear that such paternalistic pampering would soften the moral fibre of the future lawyers is more than offset by the relief of a crowded and inadequate housing situation...